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Re:The death of corporate research labs by rorykoehler on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:52AM (#23256232)
Increasingly they don't even buy small companies. They just copy. Look at half of Microsoft recent activity.
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Re:The death of corporate research labs by jpadkins on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:37AM (#23256829)
recent? They have been copying since the 1980s...
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Re:The death of corporate research labs by rorykoehler on Thursday May 21, 2020 @07:16AM (#23257038)
True. There was a phase of acquisitions in the interim.
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